FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, doors to a COVID-19 treatment unit at UW Health in Madison, Wisc. A state audit released Wednesday, May 24, 2023, faults the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for how it awarded grants and ventilators to health care providers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
John Hart - member image share, Wisconsin State Journal
FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo, doors to a COVID-19 treatment unit at UW Health in Madison, Wisc. A state audit released Wednesday, May 24, 2023, faults the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for how it awarded grants and ventilators to health care providers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
John Hart - member image share, Wisconsin State Journal
MADISON — A state audit released Wednesday faults the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for how it awarded grants and ventilators to health care providers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The agency’s leader, in her response, defended the awards, emphasizing that the money and ventilators were handed out during a public health emergency with the goal of keeping health care providers open and able to provide care to patients.
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